Sentences with phrase «as spectacle»

As a spectacle in what is meant to be the world's elite football league it was an extremely poor game.

Besides, I think this film fails as a spectacle film.

«Because they can't be used as a spectacle,» she replied.

I'm not seeing the work here as spectacle - free either.

She notes that her work is a process of «demanding respect» for the black female body that has always been understood as a spectacle.

While the boxer functions as a spectacle of masculine power, «The Pimp» displays the performative nature of gender expression as he takes on the role of the drag queen Jori < 3.

In an age of art as spectacle, art news as gossip and art collecting as speculative investing, Ellsworth Kelly represents an abiding and still - untarnished version of the Modernist ideal of art.

The existence of species in danger of extinction such as the spectacled bear (Tremarctos omatus), the Andean Cock - of - the - Rocks (Rupicola peruviana), the dwarf deer (Pudu mephistopheles), etc. was one of the reasons why the government decided to declare it a Conservation Unit.

For Grossman, the body is both the theater and the story - the stage as well as the spectacle enacted upon it.

I do not feel the need to galavant my belief in God as a spectacle for others to see.

It proved so successful in nullifying opponents that many English sides later adopted it, changing the domestic game as a spectacle.»

The Cloud Forests hide some mysterious animals and some are quite distinct from their neighbors in the lowland Amazon, such as the spectacled bears.

Consumption as spectacle contains the promise that want will disappear.

The things missing from the first film have been satisfactorily addressed in the second: the crucial racial bullying subplot; the unfortunate attention on special effects as spectacle; and the lamentable lack of character development.

Beauty, strength, and grace animate the figures in Hank Willis Thomas's And One, while the proximity of a noose invites viewers to consider, remember, and question the history of black bodies as spectacle, as celebrated icon, and as targets of historical and present day violence.

Nancy Davidson's Dustup offers a humorous, absurdist critique of the American cowgirl as a spectacle to admire, a tall tale fantasy of western legend.

It is telling that the word for billboard in Spanish is espectacular, alluding to its function as a spectacle.

The show's press release states that» [t] his is not a show about meat as spectacle but about meat as signification,» but it's difficult to not be attracted to the show by the mere mention of «meat art.»

Entitled «Interrogation of Reality — Picture Worlds Today,» it brought together works by Marcel Broodthaers, Christian Boltanski, Arnulf Rainer, Claes Oldenburg, Gerhard Richter and Ed Ruscha (who designed the famous orange, ant - ridden catalogue cover), and inaugurated the art exhibition as spectacle.

Woman as spectacle in Zhang Yimou's «Theatre of Punishments» Article by Jeanette Delamoir for Screening the Past.

Not as a spectacle but as a moment of mourning....

«Being exposed at the beach can be nerve - wracking for anyone, but especially when your body is already treated constantly as a spectacle by cis people,» said one beachgoer.

The playing of the Passion as a spectacle for vast audiences is in itself an offense, since it leads to detachment.

The modern age has seen more than its share of horrors, but none so stupefying as the spectacle of Christ re-crucified in our divisions.

It's fashionable to declare that the Olympics have grown too big, but Los Angeles swallowed them up as if they were just a Kiwanis convention, and television packaged them quite neatly as a spectacle for the watching world.

Oh, I did love that Padres offseason, at least as a spectacle.

But the game is over as a spectacle now and Arsenal should now just preserve their lead, and other than a very dodgy dive by Calvin - Lewin and he was lucky not to be booked for simulation.

I know at Arsenal we want to carry the standard for florid and flair play but all it's done is excite us momentarily as a spectacle but not been robust enough when having to play against a team that can press you into submission until the ball becomes a hot potato.

Ever since we lost the creative core of Cesc, Nasri, Song, and RVP in the space of 12 months, we've gone down hill as a spectacle.

The match as a spectacle may suffer as a result of Martinez's tactics.

Most important, though, both the Web site and book series dismantle the stereotypes of women scientists as spectacled spinsters locked in a lab.

Ponds in the Barrow Peninsula also serve as a major food source and nesting habitat for migratory birds, including certain waterfowl on the threatened species list, such as the spectacled eider (Somateria fischeri) and Steller's eider (Polysticta stelleri).

When depicting the type of daily brutality that black slaves experienced, some scenes based on historical record, some based more on hearsay, Tarantino does not deliver violence as spectacle.

In his best films Argento delivered murder as spectacle with razor - sharp execution and turned horror cinema into a dream - like spectacle with a dash of sexual perversity.

Awesome as spectacle but fairly perishable as anything else, Chan's stunts are for me a far cry from the more dreamlike feats of Buster Keaton and Harold Lloyd, physical actors to whom he's often compared.

If the movie can't decide whether to kiss or kill the technology it's selling as spectacle, then at least it's settled on the kind of film it's aiming to reconstruct (no, not The Shining — though that's the movie's best sequence).

A late scene with the Pegasus cracking ice fills the rear channels even as the spectacle of it fills the viewer with shame.

The Haydar Aliyev Center is a modernist styled architectural delight opened in 2012 which has been hailed as a spectacle of enlightened engineering.

We will also cross an area called the cloud forest, known for being the habitat of many types of birds including hummingbirds and sparrows, and mammals such as the Andean bear, which is also known as spectacled bear (Tremarctus Ornatus).

These films embody the artist's response to a current culture where she finds herself suspended in a never - ending existential crisis, moving through the world as spectacle.

Recently Dana Schutz's painting of Emmett Till, Open Casket (2016), has become a focal point for speaking about cultural property, black trauma as spectacle, white privilege, and gender to touch a few points.

Primitive, and some using levels for arms, the noisy squeaking of their unoiled parts becomes almost as much as a spectacle as what they are painting.

Heizer anticipates that his sculpture will remain for 3,500 years, but less than a year after its installation, its value as spectacle is already greatly diminished.

From his earliest days using a standard, commercial photocopier, Tillmans has always embraced the accessible and democratic potential of new technologies rather than deploying technology as spectacle — to make work more removed from a lived reality.

Art conceived as spectacle comes from a different impulse, essentially that of an art director, and is the legacy of conceptual art fused with irony.

The Tate Turbine Hall stole Saatchi's thunder long ago and is today the definitive arena of culture as spectacle.

She is truly serious, and in the best way mysterious, and her Tate piece promises to be a real event, not merely as spectacle but as sombre, subtle, complex art.

Dismissed by Japanese critics as spectacle makers, the Gutai artists nevertheless produced a profound legacy of aesthetic experimentation, influencing Western critics and anticipating Abstract Expressionism, Arte Povera, Fluxus, and Conceptual Art.

Nature can no longer be viewed as a spectacle to which humans have ringside seats — we need to recognise that the environment is a system worth investing in so as to safeguard a more positive future for all.